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cooing

verb as in cry softly

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“They do know when someone someone’s ill, right?” he said to no one before scratching Penny’s tummy and cooing, “You know I’m ill, right? I’m ill!”

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Instead, I’d laugh, cooing for more lemon to revel in those strong sensations over and over again.

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Otherwise, Anderson holds her own, cooing her one-liners with the kittenish candor of Marilyn Monroe.

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But Gadot gets the best number in a tepid batch, a villain’s anthem that welds together a half-dozen sneering, cooing, minor-key tempo shifts.

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You could hear them cooing inside the courtroom as they flipped through children's books.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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